Cancellation of the decision of 1954 on the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR will be discussed in Crimea

The Presidium of the Crimean Parliament plans at the next meeting to consider the issue of canceling the decision of 1954, when Crimea became part of the Ukrainian SSR by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. About this “RIA Novosti” informed head of the parliament of the republic Vladimir Konstantinov.

“We will consider this issue. We plan to entrust its detailed study to the Scientific Council for Lawmaking under the Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea,” Konstantinov said.

On February 19, 1954, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Crimea was included in the Ukrainian SSR. It is believed that the initiator of the transfer of the Crimea was the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev. From 1938 to 1949, with a short break, he headed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, that is, he actually led the republic.

One of the explanations for the change in the “registration” of Crimea is the difficult economic situation on the peninsula after the war: destroyed cities, a difficult demographic situation, a shortage of workers due to military losses and the deportation of Crimean Tatars. Between the continental part of Russia and the Crimea was Ukraine, from where transport communications, building materials and equipment, and electricity went to the peninsula. President Vladimir Putin noted that Khrushchev may also have been motivated by the desire to “enlist the support of the Ukrainian nomenklatura.”

Crimea became part of Russia in 2014 after a referendum. According to its results, 96.77% of voters in the Republic of Crimea and 95.6% in Sevastopol were in favor of joining Russia. In 2015, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation considered unconstitutional transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954